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May 27, 2012
 
 
 
 
 
 

Hezbullah denies link to arms ship

6 November 2009 / AP, JERUSALEM
Israeli officials tallied up hundreds of tons of weapons seized from a commandeered ship Thursday as Lebanon’s Hezbullah guerrillas denied that the arms were meant for them.
Israeli naval commandos, acting on intelligence reports, boarded the ship before dawn in waters off Greek Cyprus on Wednesday and discovered that the cargo included hundreds of crates of rockets, missiles, mortars, anti-tank weapons and munitions.  The seizure spotlighted dangerous tensions between Israel and Iran. Israel considers Iran a strategic threat because of its nuclear program and long-range missile development, and says Tehran is lying when it denies it is building nuclear weapons.

 
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